On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 13:04 -0500, dimesio wrote: > Spam has always tended to come in waves. Most of the spam today is > from the same user, who made multiple posts within seconds of each > other. > Indeed - often on waves from the same user. > It's already been removed from the forum, and I assume that user > banned. > Many forums are moderated, i.e. posts are passed by a human before they appear on the forum and I assume this is true for the Wine Users forum and that posts aren't sent to the mail list until they've passed the moderator. Correct assumptions? > It's fairly easy (although tedious) to keep the forum clean, and it > generally is, but there's no way of retrieving spam once it's been > forwarded to the mailing list. > I'd assumed that would be the case too. Martin
